Street Shooting

[cjogo]

Shop Keeper Riga '89

[Rob C]

You could, with justification, title this shot Aurora.

;-)

I like this sort of image; reminds me of those guys working in Paris a long time ago.

Rob C

[David Jilek]

Nice shot indeed. Very nice.

[cjogo]

I only had a 80mm lens and a waist level --  Couldn't bring too much into the Country at that time ...

[Iluvmycam]

Pleasing pix!

[seamus finn]

That's a very fine shot and great timing. Nice tones too. No need to explain what lens you had at the time. It's what you got - not how you got it!

[cjogo]

That's a very fine shot and great timing. Nice tones too. No need to explain what lens you had at the time. It's what you got - not how you got it!

Just in case some suggested  > I should had zoomed :-)

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Very nice shot, tones and all.
The kind of stuff that makes me want to shoot b/w.

[Rob C]

Very nice shot, tones and all.
The kind of stuff that makes me want to shoot b/w.

You can do it two ways now...

Rob C

[WalterEG]

You can do it two ways now...

Rob C

Still only one way to shoot B&W Rob,

With B&W film loaded in a camera.

The other is an emulation with all but the Leica M which would give the same mindset as film for the shooting part.

Cheers,

W

[cjogo]

When I grab a camera to go and shoot art  ( rarely)  I first :: totally drain all color from my screen.  Mostly never turn my screen around to view anyways ..didn't have a "instant image"  on my Hassy ~ so don't seem to need it in the field , these days either  ..:=-)

[Rob C]

Still only one way to shoot B&W Rob,
With B&W film loaded in a camera.

The other is an emulation with all but the Leica M which would give the same mindset as film for the shooting part.

Cheers,

W

Actually, that's true. In fact I proved it again today (unwillingly) with my Xmas Weston Coke bottle. Could I get a good black/white out of that blasted pepper? Not really, and you have no idea how many layers I effed about with before deciding to spoof it up as bauble. It simply wouldn't do the change and look filmic: it just looked flat. Like a pulled, overexposed print.

This isn't anything as esoteric as original sin conceptual thinking about the enormity of the decision: colour or not colour; it's just a failure of the digital medium to handle particular depths well.

;-(

Rob C

[Rob C]

When I grab a camera to go and shoot art  ( rarely)  I first :: totally drain all color from my screen.  Mostly never turn my screen around to view anyways ..didn't have a "instant image"  on my Hassy ~ so don't seem to need it in the field , these days either  ..:=-)

I agree with that; and with the Nikon Matrix system, most shots are so well covered that you hardly even need to look at a histogram. I seldom used Polaroid either, though I did buy a back once, not exactly certain why. Do you still have your 'blads?

Rob C

[WalterEG]

When I grab a camera to go and shoot art  ( rarely)  I first :: totally drain all color from my screen.  Mostly never turn my screen around to view anyways ..didn't have a "instant image"  on my Hassy ~ so don't seem to need it in the field , these days either  ..:=-)

Bravo!  Since I only use digital capture for commercial assignments I don't desaturate the screen but I also leave it turned off.  Amazing how much more shooting one gets to a battery charge, by the way.

[cjogo]

I agree with that; and with the Nikon Matrix system, most shots are so well covered that you hardly even need to look at a histogram. I seldom used Polaroid either, though I did buy a back once, not exactly certain why. Do you still have your 'blads?

Rob C

Sold everything :   8X10 --  3 = 4X5's Linhoff /Sinar -- & an array of nice lenses .......RZ  /Rollei SL / Hassy / Nikon's /Makina ---  Two motorized enlargers and 20+years of darkroom gear ... nothing left .. 

[cjogo]

The only two digital Canons I have owned ( 20d & 60d )  -- have the availability to reverse the LCD ;-)  ( & keeps your screen from scratches ) ..really don't need the screen except for menus ... only shoot full manual.  

[Rob C]

It forces me to ask, and don't reply if you feel that I'm intruding, but what happened?

Life-changes seldom seem to come alone.

Rob C

[cjogo]

It forces me to ask, and don't reply if you feel that I'm intruding, but what happened?

Life-changes seldom seem to come alone.

Rob C

It's a new digital age -- old school approach & the cameras just don't work in this market.   The new kids came to the job market -- working for about 10% of our incomes .  Shooting thousands of images on auto-program and then trying to save most of the useable ones > in CS.  The budgets changed in the last 3-4 years ~  drastically ~ with Corp and portraits/ weddings .. Quantity instead of quality found a niche ... Rush service became a norm.  

[WalterEG]

Amen to that Cjogo.  Rome has been sacked yet again.

[Rob C]

It's a new digital age -- old school approach & the cameras just don't work in this market.   The new kids came to the job market -- working for about 10% of our incomes .  Shooting thousands of images on auto-program and then trying to save most of the useable ones > in CS.  The budgets changed in the last 3-4 years ~  drastically ~ with Corp and portraits/ weddings .. Quantity instead of quality found a niche ... Rush service became a norm.  

Thanks for the response - I had thought that gallery-style work was still valid, and the more filmic the better. I guess that the reality is that the bubble has burst and we are all out of soap.

Rush service - my special grouse.  I used to dread Friday afternoons. The 'phone would ring and it was always the same thing on Fridays: we need those prints asap Monday morning... guess whose weekend was screwed! Sickening thing was, I sometimes went to the same offices mid-week and the shots were still lying on the desks where I'd left them on Monday, package not even opened. I suppose the ADs didn't stop their lives on the weekend, though.

Rob C